Guest blog: Accessibility and digital inclusion worker Bill Dashfield looks at the 2018 New Zealand Census, teases out reasons for the low response rate and suggests fixes. Ironically, the 2018 Census process prevented him from filling in his own census form online…
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Bill Dashfield looks at the latest World Internet Project report, which implies only 6% of New Zealanders don’t use the internet. However, non-representative sampling has skewed the results – the real percentage not using the internet is much higher.
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NZ Herald: Di Daniels has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to digital literacy education, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Di led the 20/20 Trust’s Computers in Homes programme (currently suspended awaiting promised funding reinstatement) from small beginning to a national programme that helped 19,000 school families get online.
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The Lloyds Bank Consumer Digital Index 2018 measures financial and digital capability of UK people, and shows clear social and financial benefits of being online vs offline. New this year is detailed Basic Digital Skills, digital skills in the workplace, new demographic data, money management attitudes and research on 11-18 year olds.
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20/20 Trust today expressed disappointment over the absence of a Budget announcement restoring funding for Computers in Homes (CiH).
“We are concerned about the impact on the digitally excluded – the 100,000 school-aged children without internet access at home” said Laurence Millar of 20/20 Trust. “These families will be cut further adrift each year that the world moves on and they are not digitally connected.”
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To widen community access NetHui again takes to the road, with one day NetHui in 3 locations in August/October.
Team up with InternetNZ to bring New Zealand’s most inclusive diverse and interactive Internet-focused event to your town or city.
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The next census is on 6th March 2018, and is a ‘digital first’ census when people are sent an online code instead of paper forms.
But most of the ‘digitally excluded’ people, that 20/20 programmes are for, do not have the internet. Please offer your help to make sure their voice is heard, and to complement and support the special efforts Census field teams will make to reach ‘offline’ dwellings and families.
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Safer Internet Day 2018 ison February 6th, Waitangi Day. This year’s theme is “Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you”. It is an invitation for everyone to join in and engage with others in a respectful way in order to ensure a better digital experience. Here are some useful resources, including the Netsafe 2018 STAYING SAFE ONLINE GUIDE.
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